USPTO Patents Application 10756843

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INFORMATION DISCLOSURE
CITATION LIST

Atty. Docket No.:

3882/2Con.

Application Serial No.:
10/756.843

ADDlicantfs): Peter SECOR et al.

Filing Date: January 13, 2004

Group Art Unit:
■Not Yet Assigned ~^\S1^

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Date

Name

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Class

Subclass

/BW/

2001/0013107

08/09/01

Lewis

2001/0047430

11/29/01

Dev et al.

2001/0047409

11/29/01

Datta et al.

—

2001/0042139

11/15/01

Jeffords et al.

,

2001/0052085

12/13/01

Dube et al.

- —

2002/0188584

12/12/02

Ghannam et al.

2002/0184528

12/5/02

Shevenell et al.

2002/0075882

6/20/02

Donis et al.

■

2002/0050926

05/02/02

Lewis et al.

- —

2002/0032760

03/14/02

Matthews et al.

2003/0110396

6/12/03

Lewis et al.

3,855,456

12/17/74

Summers et al.

3,906,454

9/16/75

Martin

4,135,662

01/23/79

Dlugos

4,410,950

10/18/83

Toyoda et al.

4,438,494

3/20/84

Budde et al.

4,503,534

3/5/85

Budde et al.

4,503,535

3/5/85

Budde et al.

4,517,468

5/14/85

Kemper et al.

H

4,545,013

10/1/85

Lyon et al.

4,568,909

2/4/86

Whynacht

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4,585,975

4/29/86

Wimmer

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4,591,983

5/27/86

Bennett et al.

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4,622,545

11/11/86

Atkinson

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4,648,044

3/3/87

Hardy et al.

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4,727,545

2/23/88

Glackemeyer et al.

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4,817,092

3/28/89

Denny

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Daniel et al.

!

4,866,712

9/12/89

Chao

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4,881,230

11/14/89

Clark et al.

—

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4/3/90

Walter et al.

4,932,026

06/05/90

Dev et al.

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4,935,876

6/19/90

Hanatsuka

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Lirov et al.

— —

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Seymour

5,123,017

6/16/92

Simpkins et al.

5,125,091

6/23/92

Staas, Jr. et al.

5,133,075

7/21/92

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Turner

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4/20/93

Kagei et al.

5,214,653

5/25/93

Elliott, Jr. et al.

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9/21/93

Rose et al.

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Dev et al.

•

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3/8/94

Conley et al.

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03/15/94

Dev et al.

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Bouloutas et al.

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6/14/94

Daniel et al.

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Hershey et al.

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5,432,934

7/11/95

Levin et al.

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5,436,909

07/25/95

Dev et al.

- —

5,483,637

01/9/96

Winokur et al.

v ■

5,485,455

01/16/96

Dobbins et al.

—

5,491,694

02/13/96

Oliver et al.

- —

5,495,470

2/27/96

Tyburski et al.

■

5,504,921

4/02/96

Dev et al.

— —

5,521,910

05/28/96

Matthews

—

5,528,516

6/18/96

Yemini et al.

■

—

5,559,955

09/24/96

Dev et al.

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5,590,120

12/31/96

Vaishnavi et al.

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5,627,819

5/06/97

Dev et al.

— —

5,649,103

07/15/97

Datta et al.

-

— —

5,666,481

09/09/97

Lewis

—

■ —

5,675,741

10/07/97

Aggarwal et al.

■

- —

5,687,290

11/11/97

Lewis

—

5,696,486

12/09/97

Poliquin et al.

- — '

5,706,436

01/06/98

Lewis et al.

- —

5,722,427

03/03/98

Wakil et al.

—

5,727,157

03/10/98

Orr et al.

5,734,642

03/31/98

Vaishnavi et al.

*

5,748,781

05/05/98

Datta et al.

5,751,933

05/12/98

Dev et al.

-

5,751,965

05/12/98

Mayo et al.

5,754,532

05/19/98

Dev et al.

5,764,955

06/09/98

Doolan

5,768,501

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Lewis

r-

5,777,549

07/07/98

Arrowsmith et al.

/BW/

5,790,546

08/04/98

Dobbins et al.

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5,791,694

! 08/1 1/98

Fahl et al.

'

5,793,362

08/11/98

Matthew et al.

5,812,750

09/22/98

Dev et al.

5,822,305

10/13/98

Vaishnavi et al.

— —

5,832,503

11/03/98

Malik et al.

5,872,928

02/16/99

Lewis et al.

■

5,889,953

03/30/99

Thebaut et al.

-

5,907,696

05/25/99

Stilwell et al.

5,940,376

08/17/99

Yanacek et al.

— ~~

5,970,984

10/26/99

Wakil et al.

•—

5,980,984

11/09/99

Modera et al.

— "

5,987,442

11/16/99

Lewis et al.

6,000,045

12/07/99

Lewis

—

6,003,090

12/14/99

Puranik et al.

6,014,697

01/11/00

j Lewis et al.

— "

6,026,442

02/15/00

Lewis et al.

—

6,041,383

03/21/00

Jeffords et al.

— ■

6,049,828

04/11/00

Dev et al.

- —

6,057,757

05/02/00

Arrowsmith et al.

•

-

6,064,304

05/16/00

Arrowsmith et al.

■ —

6,064,986

05/16/00

Edelman

—

6,064,996

05/16/00

Yamaguchi et al.

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6,084,858

07/04/00

Matthews et al.

- —

6,115,362

09/05/00

Bosa et al.

6,131,112

10/10/00

Lewis et al.

6,138,122

10/24/00

Smith et al.

6,141,720

10/31/00

Jeffords et al.

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6,199,172

03/06/01

Dube et al.

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6,205,563

03/20/01

Lewis

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6,209,033

03/27/01

Datta et al.

■

'

6,216,168

04/10/01

Dev et al.

■

6,233,623

05/15/01

Jeffords et al.

6,243,747

06/05/01

Lewis et al.

6,255,943

07/03/01

Lewis et al.

,

6,324,530

1 1/27/01

Yamaguchi et al.

\

6,324,590

11/27/01

Jeffords et al.

<~~

6,336,138

1/1/02

Caswell et al.

x •

6,349,306

02/19/02

Malik et al.

6,373,383

04/16/02

Arrowsmith et al.

.

•

6,374,293

04/16/02

Dev et al.

,

6,381,639

04/30/02

Thebaut et al.

6,392,667

05/21/02

McKinnon et al.

6,421,719

07/16/02

Lewis et al

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6,430,712

08/06/02

Lewis

'

■

6,437,804

08/20/02

Ibe et al.

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6,502,079

12/31/02 j

Ball et al.

6,510,478

01/21/03

Jeffords et al.

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6,603,396

08/05/03

Lewis et al.

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6,651,062

11/18/03

Ghannam et al.

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SIGN PATENT

DOCUMENTS

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Date

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Translation

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EP 0 209 795

01/28/87

EPO

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EP 0 319 998 Bl

6/14/89

EPO

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EP 0 338 561 Bl

10/25/89

EPO

EP0 342 547 Bl

1 1/23/89

EPO

EP 0 616 289

9/21/94

EPO

EP0 686 329 Bl

12/13/95

EPO

WO 00/13112

3/9/00

WIPO

WO 00/72183

11/30/00

WIPO

WO 01/86844

11/15/01

WIPO

— "

WO 01/86775

11/15/01

WIPO

WO 01/86444

11/15/01

' WIPO

WO 01/86443

11/15/01

WIPO

—

WO 01/86380

11/15/01

WIPO

WO 02/06973

1/24/02

WIPO

WO 02/06972

1/24/02

WIPO

WO 02/06971

1/24/02

WIPO

WO 89/07377

8/10/89

WIPO

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WO 93/00632

01/7/93

WIPO

—

WO 95/20297

7/27/95

WIPO

WO 96/09707

3/28/96

WIPO

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WO 97/44937

1 1/27/97

WIPO

WO 97/37477

10/09/97

WIPO

WO 97/29570

08/14/97

WIPO

WO 97/16906

05/09/97

WIPO

WO 98/44682

10/8/98

WIPO

WO 98/42109

9/24/98

WIPO

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WO 98/52322

11/19/98

WIPO

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WO 99/27682

6/3/99

WIPO

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OTHER DOCUMENTS (including Author, Title, Date, Pertinent Pages, etc.)

/BW/

Subramanian, Mani, Network Management: Principles and Practice, Addison Wesley
Longman, 2000

Lewis, Lundy, Service Level Management for Enterprise Networks, Artech House,
1999

Integrated Network Management V: Integrated Management in a Virtual World,
Proceedings of the Fifth IFIP/IEEE International Svmnosium on Integrated Network

J. i VvvvUlJIgJ \JX 111 w X 11U1 11 11 ' 1 J — > 1 — - X_> llllvl UUUVWU1 U J 111UV JJUli 1 \JH llllvglUlVU 1 1WI IV

Management, San Diego, California, May 12-16, 1997, Lazar A. et. al, eds., Chapman
& Hall, 1997

Stevenson Douglas Network Management' What it is and what it isn't Anril
1 995, http://www.sce.carleton.ca/netmanage/NetMngmnt/NetMngmnt.html (visited
8/30/2004)

Nptwnrk and Distrihntpd Slvstpms Manaopmpnt Morris Slnman PH AHHisnn-
Wesley, 1994

RFC 1 158 - Management Information Base for network management of TCP/IP-based

intprnpts* MTR-TT Nptwnrk Workino Ornnn KA Rnsp EH Mav 1 Q0O

Ullvl ll^lo. 1V11U XI, 1>i^IW\J1JV VV VJl IVlilg VJ I \J LIL/, IVI. JXJJoW, i_>U., IVlcljr I 77W)

http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfcl 158.html (visited 8/30/04)

RFC 1 157 - Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP), Network Working

frrniin T f^p^p pt al FHq K/fav 1 0Q0 Vittrv//\AAAT\A/ fViriQ nrcj/rfpQ/r'Fp 1 1 S7 Vitml fviQitpH
vji uu|7, J . ^/dow cl cij.j luj., Lviay iyy\j z imp.// w w w.iaus.uig/ 1 ito/ 1 i i j i . i hi hi ^ viol lcu

8/30/04)

RFC^ 1 1 ^sf\ - N/fanaopmpnt Infnrmatinn Rasp fnr nptwnrk" manaopmpnt nf Tf^P/TP-ha^prl

internets, Network Working Group, K. McCloghrie and M. Rose, Eds., May 1990,
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfcl 156.html (visited 8/30/04)

RFC 1 155 - Structure and identification of management information for TCP/IP- based
internets, Network Working Group, M. Rose and K. McCloghrie, Eds., May 1990,
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfcl 1 55.html (visited 8/30/04) |

ISO/IEC 10164-1: 1993, Information technology - Open Systems Interconnection -
Systems Management: Object Management Function

ISO/IEC 10164-2:1993, Information technology - Open Systems Interconnection -
Systems Management: State Management Function

ISO/IEC 10164-4:1992, Information technology - Open Systems Interconnection -
Systems management: Alarm reporting function

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ISO/IEC 10164-5:1993, Information technology - Open Systems Interconnection -
Systems management: Event Report Management Function

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ISO/IEC 10165-1 : 1993, Information technology - Open Systems Interconnection -
Management Information Services - Structure of management information:
Management Information Model

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ISO/IEC 9595:1998, Information technology - Open Systems Interconnection -
Common management information service

ISO/IEC 9596-2: 1993, Information technology - Open Systems Interconnection -
Common management information protocol: Protocol Implementation Conformance
Statement (PICS) proforma

ISO/IEC 7498-4:1989, Information processing systems - Open Systems
Interconnection - Basic Reference Model - Part 4: Management framework

Gilbert R., et al. 9 CNMGRAF - Graphic Presentation Services for Network
Management ACM 0-89791-164 (1985)

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M. Gargano, et al., A Logical Data Model for Integrated Geographical Databases,
IEEE (1990)

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Micromuse's Netcool/Omnibus, A Cool MOM Makes It Easy, Data Communications,
Januarv 1995

Examiner: /Brian Whipple/

Date Considered: 07/31/2007

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